You know one of those days when you are super busy and have no time for cooking or days when you have no wishes to cook something elaborated, but still, want to offer your family a delicious meal?
On those days, I use our favorite recipe that comes together in maximum 20 minutes and is always a crowd-pleaser. It even has veggies in it!
When I first cooked creamy broccoli and chicken pasta, my husband was very skeptical has he does not like vegetables much. But I assured him, he won’t notice the broccoli at all. Nowadays, it’s one of his favorite pasta dishes we make at home.
This is a great recipe for kids who don’t like vegetables. Chop broccoli florets as thin and small as you can, so they look like a part of the sauce and remain unnoticed. You can even sneak in some bell peppers for extra color and taste.
Sometimes when I need a super comfort food, I add some bacon too. I really love this recipe, as you can change the veggies and meat as you like, but still, have a dish that comes together in no time and helps out on those difficult days.
- ½ kg skinless, boneless chicken breast
- ½ kg broccoli florets
- 150 ml chicken broth
- 200 g bite-size pasta (penne, bowtie, fusilli)
- 250 g (1 pkg) cream cheese
- 2 tbsp butter
- Cook pasta according to directions until pasta is al dente.
- Cook broccoli until tender. Rinse in cold water and drain. Chop the florets into the desired size.
- Cut chicken breasts into strips.
- Melt butter in a large skillet, add chicken strips and cook until chicken is white.
- Add chopped broccoli and chicken broth.
- Cook until the broth is simmering and add cream cheese.
- Stir until smooth. Cover and cook the sauce for a couple of minutes.
- Remove from heat.
- Add the cooked pasta to the broccoli and chicken sauce.
- Stir to blend the ingredients together.
- Serve
this dish looks wonderful! healthy and creamy both! just pinned 🙂
Nom! That looks really good and simple! Thanks for sharing.
This is a great recipe. I am copying it to my recipe board I keep for ingredients and throwing some more veggies into it. I’ll maybe even skip the chicken sometimes and make it even quicker. Oh, I’ll leave it in for my kids – but skip it for myself. I’m taking your advice and maybe adding a little cauliflower and corn!
This looks delish. I love adding a green vegetable to our dinner meals and broccoli is a favorite.
This is so easy and I am pretty sure that I have the ingredients to make this in my house! Thanks!
I love the versatility pasta dishes offer! This looks like such a delish meal idea!
That looks really yummmm! And easy!
This sounds like a really tasty recipe! I have some broccoli hanging out in fridge right now and I was wondering what to do with it!
MY Kind of dinner! YUMMY!!!
My kind of dinner, too!! I’m so glad you set this up so I could print it and put it in my recipe book! thanks!!
I love penne… especially baked. I bet this would be wonderful tossed into the oven.
That looks so satisfying and like something I’d enjoy every week! Yummy!
This sounds yummy! I bet my kids would eat it right up. Broccoli is one of the only veggies I can get them to eat!
This Looks Delicious!
Oooh that looks SO delicious – I could go for some right now.
Mmmmm!! This looks yummy!!
This sounds so good. I am Italian, so I love just about anything made with pasta. This dish is so easy to make, too!
Creamy Carbonara for me! And yes, my son eats veggies, thank goodness!
Chicken and Broccoli are my two favorite foods…besides pasta! This dish was made for me!
Oh boy! I have all of these ingredients- sounds like dinner tonight! Looks good!
This looks delicious – my family would love this. What is nice is that they are simple ingredients that I have in the kitchen! Thanks
looks delicious, what a great way for me to hide veggies for my kids too!
This is so easy and Brocolli is my favorite- i am gonna try this one out.
Sounds delicious! I love pasta and broccoli!
Wow, this looks great! Definitely a dish we need to try. Like your husband, my hubs doesn’t like vegetables much either so it’s great that he can’t taste the broccoli!
This looks really yummy! I wish my oldest wasn’t so darn picky!!
I am making something like this for dinner tonight but slightly different. I have to try this way another night.
I really like any pasta recipe. My daughter and I especially like any that included broccoli.
This would be an instant hit in my house. My family loves recipes like this, and the addition of bacon would please the masses, I’m sure. 😉
That looks so tasty. I have to make it!
This looks like a wonderful meal. I usually have most of these ingredients. I just need to google the conversions for the measurements.
My family loves pasta, makes a great dinner! I’m going to try this recipe.
I never seem to be able to make a good broccoli and chicken pasta dish. Probably because I don’t use a recipe, I just make it up as I go. Maybe this is a sign that I should try yours…
Broccoli is one of my kiddo’s favorite veggies, believe it or not! I think our whole famly would love this recipe. Everything is amazing with cream cheese! lol
The sauce looks delicious! Thanks for the recipe.